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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      So for this to work, the service absolutely has to be compensated only by the customer, with rigorous and transparent policies against accepting commissions or other kick-backs from providers. That means it will seem shockingly expensive, to middle-class people, initially.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      (Throughout the current economy, everyone is used to getting what seems like something-for-nothing that actually isn’t, because the webs of compensation are opaque. This radically distorts incentives. Broader theme re rent-seeking, probably obvious, let’s set aside for now)

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      There is a business category that initially claims to do what one would want, called “personal concierge.” They market themselves to the very rich and claim to be able to do essentially anything for you. The most successful one is: https://www.quintessentially.com/services 

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      Although they *say* they can deal with routine stuff, virtually all their marketing is about being a high-end travel agent, plus they can do ridiculous things like get a live trained elephant to your child’s birthday party.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      (That’s re the category in general, not just Quintessentially specifically.) Afaict they are not going to deal with insurance bills for you, or get the dishwasher fixed, or sort out Mom’s house title snafu, or fill in her 239 change-of-address forms.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      Closer to the mark is personal-assistant and personal accountancy services. These are often individuals, or at most very small companies, that market more to an upper-middle-class demographic. They can handle some fraction of this sort of bullshit.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      But they aren’t a one-stop-shop, and you have to manage them, and they can and do screw up, or outright embezzle, and since they’re individuals, you don’t have the “this company wouldn’t risk its reputation over this” trust factor.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      So… there’s clearly a need here, and it’s clearly not impossible to fulfill, just difficult. As a business, you’d start by marketing a very expensive service to the actually-rich. You’d need lots of Respectable People involved initially to provide trust.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      Or, potentially, a big well-loved company (Apple??) could develop it initially as an in-house offering for senior employees, establish its trustworthiness, then open to public. (Maybe sort of like the “Haven” Berkshire/Amazon/JPM heathcare initiative)

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      Once you had economy of scale, it could become affordable for the middle class. Maybe it costs $10k/year, which no one would sign up for initially, but once it became understood that it frees up your weekends… priceless

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      One main way of achieving economy would be to force streamlined procedures on providers. “We are going to switch our 100k upper-middle-class clients to a different provider unless you make this easy for us.” Forces internalization of administrative externalities.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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          This could be a huge economic and social good, eliminating large swathes of the rent-seeking bullshit that infests the current economy.

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        3. zooko‏ @zooko Jan 12
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          I'm with you! I think the magnitude of this ubiquitous inefficiency is tremendous, and I think you're really right that it is also a fertile terrain for fraud and exploitation. Years ago, my young family was nearly destroyed by a suspicious "error" at a health insurance company.

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        2. metamitya[notribe]‏ @metamitya Jan 12
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          the interesting thing about this is it would positively impact those who have not signed up for the service due to "intolerance of the minority" effect

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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          Yes, I think it could be a huge win for everyone. Therefore, it will be vigorously resisted by entrenched interests. Need to strike fast and with overwhelming force. This could be one of those “really giant” things VCs want so badly to invest in… $1bn initial funding maybe

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        2. Chiel Muurling  🤷‍♂️‏ @ChielMuurling Jan 12
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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          Hi, there is your unroll: Thread by @Meaningness: @KevinSimler @context_ing Right, I nearly added a tweet about principal-agent when originally… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1216397640138510337.html …. Talk to you soon. 🤖

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        2. James and the Giant Peachoid  🍑‏ @JimmyRis Jan 12
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          The general helplessness of the average citizen in the face of opaque bureaucracies and convoluted admin processes is so much friction to growth and happiness.

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        3. James and the Giant Peachoid  🍑‏ @JimmyRis Jan 12
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          Good example of this is parking ticket contest services, most folks have no choice but to pay because they don’t have the luxury of spending time contesting and arguing, or don’t even know that’s an option But give $5 to an auto-contester and save $70 on a ticket

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